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Italian Table Talk: Chestnut biscotti for Ognissanti

Tags: autumn, baking, dessert, diabetic, holidays, Italian Table Talk, recipes, traditional
October 31, 2012
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Food is such an integral part of culture – it’s something that I’ve been thinking about lately especially after contemplating whether or not food writing was important. In the article, Michael Ruhlman (author and charcuterie/salumi-maker extraordinaire), poses the question with some pretty convincing points and quotes, such as this one by George Orwell, no less, written about 75 years ago: “I think it could plausibly be argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion.

Tags: diabetic, salad, spring, tuscany, vegetables, vegetarian
October 9, 2012
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There are just under ten weeks before my due date (yes, folks, that means less than ten weeks till Christmas eve!) and I have just discovered that I have gestational diabetes. It means that for the next ten weeks while I have diabetes, I just have to be a bit more careful with what I eat and when, which can be a challenge for any food blogger, but luckily it’s not an overhaul of my usual diet, it’s just a tad more picky.

Italian Table Talk: Chestnut biscotti for Ognissanti

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